M.C. Julie Yu

uitwisseling, sociaal-maatschappelijk, performance, Literair, Lichaam, installatie, film, Artistiek onderzoek

MC Julie Yu (b. Taipei, Taiwan, 1989), is an interdisciplinary artist, freelance masseur, and novice activist who is currently based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She holds a BFA in Theater Directing from Taipei National University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan (2013) and an MA in Fine art, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht (2020). Her works include a wide variety of media, such as video, music, print, exercise, performance, workshops, and installation Yu's artistic practices revolve around the senses of othering under the postcolonial and capitalist cultural phenomena, specifically based on the experience as a migrant and interdisciplinary worker. She reflects on these experiences through various sub-culture inspirations and addresses the reflection with a good dose of humor.

**Failure to Care (Self-care and Giving)** - Artistic research in process / Residency at air WG, NL. (2022) / Solo Exhibition at point WG, NL. (2022) Photo Credit: Ilya Rabinovich The work tries to unlock the failures of social constructs by analyzing the body's gestures of care—students napping on the table as self-care and massages as care-giving. The nuances of these tacit knowledges of an individual body are delivered via inspiration from Youtube video themes, such as tutorials and ASMR. The artist aims to rethink the replacement of care in aspects of individualization, commodification, and digitalization. Failures to Care is an ongoing project where the slippages and mistakes between labour, sexuality and identity are highlighted in the industry of wellness along with their entanglement with resistance and solidarity. These concepts are tied to the need of the social body to feel safe and comfortable by its community. As a freelance masseur, Yu's own experiences inform the works in the exhibition as she captures moments of exhaustion and discomfort in a quest for the fulfillment of basic human needs.” Summary from air WG.

**Fairly Normal Questions For Stories That Are Not So Easy To Tell.** - Card game. Collaboration with Falke Pisano. --Presentation in the public event- Stories That Are Not So Easy To Tell. / Part of: Falke Pisano, Where Should We Begin?, Superhost 2022 at M HKA, Antwerp, BE (2022) Photo Credit: Chun Yao Lin M.C. Julie Yu and Falke Pisano will present a prototype of a game that allows for the unpacking of recurring situations and experiences of work in the cultural field.

**Updates from The Nomad** - The outcome from the Crypto Residency Program(online), Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, TW. 2023 Updates from The Nomad" aims to depict a glimpse into the life of Digital Nomads through a series of written postcards. The text on these postcards unveils the stories and thoughts of an anonymous Digital Nomad, conveyed in a bright and almost naive tone. On the flip side, the postcards feature a collage of scenes from both physical and virtual spaces. While showcasing romantic travel scenes, this visual narrative is disrupted by the intrusion of a screen and its content. Through this juxtaposition, the work offers memetic humor, serving as a critical reflection on the over-romanticized lifestyle of digital nomads.

**Folding Space 3.0** - Video Collaboration with Sol Enae Lee. Folding Space 3.0/ Common Grounds- open studio visit, Casco Art Institue: Working for the Commons. "Folding space" is a walking workshop, involving participants in a series of performative exercises. The host/performer introduce a set of movement for "training teleportation super power" in a cheerful atmosphere. The participants are asked to document their experience in colourful markings, as comparison before and after the movements. The attempt is to explore nuances in our bodily experience--our senses, emotions, feeling for rhythm and our relationship to space as we go about our daily life. Routines and rhythms are observed as they influence our memory and emotions, and shape our mentality. In “Folding space 2.0” , the digital installation was added up--the video projection connected to a questionnaire with instructions for movements to fold space. The audience is invited to partake in a series to exercises after they finished the playful questionnaire. After experience the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, the work has developed a new direction --- exploring the sense of distance among the "flat spaces" of virtual world, and its bouadaries toward physical spaces.

**Travelogues with Prompts//Scene 4 Karaoke** - Promptbooks, Video, Performances and Installations. Installations exhibition/ Foraging in Idleness, open studio visit, Moira Expo, Utrecht.(2021) Text and Video launch/ STIL(TE) / STILL(NESS, Stichting Simulacrum, Amsterdam (2020) Performance and Installations/ If Not Now, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.(2020) Photo Credit: Alëna Vinokurova & Chun-Yao Lin Scene 4/ Karaoke All the characters from the previous scenes came out to sing karaoke together. Include the one being there, and being mentioned. So are the non-conventional characters, such as the touristy points, the traveling objects, the songs, and the events.

**Travelogues with Prompts//Scene 3 Pendulums** - Promptbooks, Video, Performances and Installations. Installations exhibition/ Foraging in Idleness, open studio visit, Moira Expo, Utrecht.(2021) Text and Video launch/ STIL(TE) / STILL(NESS, Stichting Simulacrum, Amsterdam (2020) Performance and Installations/ If Not Now, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.(2020) Photo Credit: Alëna Vinokurova & Chun-Yao Lin Scene 3/ Pendulums This scene consists of 9 minimalist conversations, that each conversation can be looped in some way or another. These conversations show the back and forth movement of a migrant, who can’t anchor the sense of belonging, either in the hometown of the past, or the hosting country in the present.

**Travelogues with Prompts//Scene 2 A Tourist’s Trip** - Promptbooks, Video, Performances and Installations. Installations exhibition/ Foraging in Idleness, open studio visit, Moira Expo, Utrecht.(2021) Text and Video launch/ STIL(TE) / STILL(NESS, Stichting Simulacrum, Amsterdam (2020) Performance and Installations/ If Not Now, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.(2020) Photo Credit: Alëna Vinokurova & Chun-Yao Lin Scene 2/ A Tourist’s Trip A first-person perspective travelogue about a postcard that turns a casual trip into an investigation of an unknown feeling of oppression. I, the traveler, describe the story with a naive attitude to European students' cultural experience until a nationalities-mistaken postcard from a theatre group drags me into a confusion and rage mood.

**Travelogues with Prompts//Scene 1 Chris** - Promptbooks, Video, Performances and Installations. Installations exhibition/ Foraging in Idleness, open studio visit, Moira Expo, Utrecht.(2021) Text and Video launch/ STIL(TE) / STILL(NESS, Stichting Simulacrum, Amsterdam (2020) Performance and Installations/ If Not Now, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.(2020) Photo Credit: Alëna Vinokurova & Chun-Yao Lin Scene 1/ Chris A fictional poetic story that depicts a character, Chris, who keeps moving and stays in the role of tourist. So that to avoid any deeper conversation about who Chris is. The character, Chris, is an image of all tourist, who enjoys capitalism tourism in the most shallow way. However, when Chris couldn’t travel anymore, due to some unknown reasons, Chris needs to confront the deeper reality and facing Chris’s fragile identity.

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Datum: 01-03-2024 t/m 28-02-2025

In samenwerking met: Roodkapje

Studio Residency for 1 year.

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